Joan Hickson
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Never one to sit idle, Miss Marple finds her luxurious Barbados vacation a bit dull until Major Palgrave's murder turns it into A Caribbean Mystery. Her London stay seems a bit too perfect until she discovers something sinister behind the Edwardian façade At Bertram's Hotel. How can Miss Marple resist visiting the seaside villa of a young couple plagued by terrifying memories of a Sleeping Murder? And how will she solve an unspecified crime in Nemesis,...
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Work 1. Colonel Prothero has lots of enemies in the village of St. Mary Mead and when he's found dead there are plenty of suspects, some with alibis and some with confessions. Work 2. Miss Marple receives a cryptic message that sends her on a tour of the historic homes of England. A tour passenger is killed and Miss Marple must right an old wrong.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Work 1. Poison-pen letters cause two deaths in Lymston. Can Miss Marple uncover the killer before there is another? Work 2. Miss Marple thinks Bertram's is a little too proper & maybe a little sinister. And then Bess Sedgwick & her daughter check in and the doorman turns up dead.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Colonel Protheroe is found dead from a single gun shot wound to the head, none of his neighbors in the village of St. Mary Mead is much surprised. So many people wished this local official would say farewell, if not quite so permanently. With suspects abound and the local police symied it is up to Miss Jane Marple to root out the killer.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Murder is Announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement -- and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m." A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, the locals arrive at Little...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Elspeth McGillicuddy was not a woman usually given to hallucinations. But when she witnesses what appears to be a woman being strangled on a train and no-one else sees it, no-one reports it and no corpse is found she turns to her old friend Jane Marple to help solve the puzzle. Marple asks her highly efficient and intelligent young acquaintance, Lucy Eyelesbarrow to infiltrate the Crackenthorpe family, who seem to be at the heart of the mystery,...
12) Nemesis
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Even the unflappable Miss Marple is astounded as she reads the letter addressed to her on instructions from the recently deceased tycoon Mr. Jason Rafiel, whom she had met on holiday in the West Indies (A Caribbean Mystery). Recognizing in her a natural flair for justice and a genius for crime-solving, Mr. Rafiel has bequeathed to Miss Marple a £20,000 legacy -- and a legacy of an entirely different sort. For he has asked Miss Marple to investigate...
Author
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Agatha Christie's They Do It with Mirrors, the indomitable Miss Marple investigates some rather deadly doings at a rehabilitation center for delinquents. Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in Stoneygates, a rehabilitation center for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when someone shoots at the administrator. Although he is not injured, a mysterious visitor is less fortunate -- shot dead simultaneously in another part of...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"The quaint village of St Mary Mead has been glamourized by the presence of screen queen Marina Gregg, who has taken up residence in preparation for her comeback. But when a local fan is poisoned, Marina finds herself starring in a real-life mystery--supported with scene-stealing aplomb by Jane Marple, who suspects that the lethal cocktail was intended for someone else. But who? If it was meant for Marina, then why? And before the final fade-out,...